This is a list of frontends for the [[pacman]] CLI tool. The list includes full featured GUI frontends, informational tools, and a variety of system tray notifiers. The list also includes categories for GTK2 based and Qt based software.

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This is a list of frontends for the [[pacman]] CLI tool. The list includes full featured GUI frontends, informational tools, and a variety of system tray notifiers. The list also includes categories for Gtk2 based and Qt based software.

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{{Warning|None of these tools are officially supported by Arch Linux/Pacman developers.}}

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{{Warning|None of these tools are officially supported by Arch Linux/Pacman developers.}}

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== Pacman frontends ==

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== Pacman Frontends ==

=== X11 ===

=== X11 ===

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====PacmanXG====

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PacmanXG is a GUI front-end for pacman. Not depends either GTK nor Qt. Just X. This graphical tool allows to do the following:

KPackageKit or Apper as it is now called is a GUI front-end for [http://www.packagekit.org/ PackageKit]. Pacman integration is accomplished via the {{Package Official|packagekit}} package in [community] which gained upstream support for pacman. This graphical tool allows to do the following from KDE's systemsettings:

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* Install/remove/upgrade packages

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* Search packages / filter packages

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* Retrieve package info

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* Refresh package database

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* Choose which repositories will be updated

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* Automatically refresh database (Hourly, daily etc.)

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* Automatically update packages

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While pacman support in PackageKit is relatively new, it works with no major problems, providing ease of use, simplicity, and good integration with KDE (and PolicyKit).

* {{App|1=KPackageKit/Apper|2=GUI frontend for [http://www.packagekit.org/ PackageKit]. Pacman integration is accomplished via the {{Pkg|packagekit}}, which gained upstream support for pacman. This graphical tool allows to do the following from KDE's systemsettings:

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===PkgBrowser===

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:* Install/remove/upgrade packages

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Pkgbrowser is an application for searching and browsing Arch packages, showing details on selected packages.

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:* Search packages/filter packages

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:* Retrieve package info

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:* Refresh package database

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:* Choose which repositories will be updated

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:* Automatically refresh database (Hourly, daily etc.)

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:* Automatically update packages

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:While pacman support in PackageKit is relatively new, it works with no major problems, providing ease of use, simplicity, and good integration with KDE (and PolicyKit).

aarchup is a fork of archup. Has the same options as archup plus a few other features. For differences between both please check changelog at the topic https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=119129

* {{App|Pacupdate|Small application that notifies the user about new updates for Arch Linux. If Pacupdate finds out that a update is available, it will display a notification in SystemTray|https://code.google.com/p/pacupdate/|{{AUR|pacupdate-svn}}}}

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Yapan - Yet Another Package mAnager Notifier - is written in C++ and Qt. It shows an icon in the system tray and popup notifications for new packages and supports other package manager like clyde or yaourt.

* {{App|1=pkgnotify.sh|2=Simple 14 line shell script that displays the number of available updates in the dzen2 title window and a list of these updates in the slave window. Depends on dzen2, inotify-tools, package-query and optionally an AUR helper (yaourt by default).

* {{App|1=kalu|2=Small C application that adds an icon in the systray and can show notifications for Arch Linux News, Upgrades, AUR upgrades, and watched (AUR) upgrades (upgrades for packages not installed). Also includes a GUI system upgrader.

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A very simple 14 line shell script that displays the number of available updates in the dzen2 title window and a list of these updates in the slave window. Depends on yaourt, dzen2 and inotify-tools.

Revision as of 01:49, 11 July 2013

zh-CN:Pacman GUI Frontends
This is a list of frontends for the pacman CLI tool. The list includes full featured GUI frontends, informational tools, and a variety of system tray notifiers. The list also includes categories for GTK2 based and Qt based software.

Warning: None of these tools are officially supported by Arch Linux/Pacman developers.

KDE/Qt

KPackageKit/Apper — GUI frontend for PackageKit. Pacman integration is accomplished via the packagekit, which gained upstream support for pacman. This graphical tool allows to do the following from KDE's systemsettings:

Install/remove/upgrade packages

Search packages/filter packages

Retrieve package info

Refresh package database

Choose which repositories will be updated

Automatically refresh database (Hourly, daily etc.)

Automatically update packages

While pacman support in PackageKit is relatively new, it works with no major problems, providing ease of use, simplicity, and good integration with KDE (and PolicyKit).

pkgnotify.sh — Simple 14 line shell script that displays the number of available updates in the dzen2 title window and a list of these updates in the slave window. Depends on dzen2, inotify-tools, package-query and optionally an AUR helper (yaourt by default).

kalu — Small C application that adds an icon in the systray and can show notifications for Arch Linux News, Upgrades, AUR upgrades, and watched (AUR) upgrades (upgrades for packages not installed). Also includes a GUI system upgrader.